That’s the circle of life. Republicans fuck up the economy, Democrats clean up the mess, Republicans use not-yet-recovered economic numbers to return to power. Lather, rinse, repeat.
KevinC
5008
Yeah, that’s pretty much been the storyline in my lifetime.
The WSJ tries to convince us that Trump has laid down the law and partially sidelined Bannon:
In the weekend meeting and another one on Monday, Jan. 30, Mr. Trump sought to avoid further confusion by clarifying the roles of senior staff members who had been jockeying for position since Election Day.
Reince Priebus was chief of staff, and aides shouldn’t circumvent him, Mr. Trump told his staff. Steve Bannon was chief strategist and shouldn’t veer too far into foreign policy. Senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, would shift her focus to communications.
I’m not sure I believe this, both because it’s basically telling the press what it wants to hear and because the article is about last weekend but the photo of the disastrous mid-week phone call with Australia showed, you guessed it, Bannon front and center and sticking his nose into foreign policy.
But the real gem of the article is this quote:
As Mr. Trump prepared to leave the White House Friday for a quick trip to his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., one White House official was looking forward to a brief respite. “I’m so excited,” the official said, about taking a weekend break.
I don’t know which is sadder, the fact that Trump’s aides are so happy to be away for him or the fact that little Donnie is so tuckered out by two weeks on the job that he’s already taking vacations on our dime. Low energy!
(On the other hand, it probably means the world won’t end this weekend. Enjoy!)
He took the very first weekend of his job off. Remember?
So yeah. This ain’t a surprise.
-xtien
Chance that an open declaration by the President that he wants policy changed so his self-described friends can make more money will be investigated by Congress: zero.
Quaro
5013
We are all going to die. Christ. Nuclear treaties trashtalking on twitter.
Soma
5014
So what exactly did Australian PM, Malcolm Turnbull, say regarding that “civil” conversation? Take a look.
(FYI, in the video Turnbull was doing the Aussie salute/waving off flies during this interview, so he was not intentionally squirming when he was answering those difficult questions. Flies in Australia are really really really that annoying in summer.)
interesting read that helps explain the history of how the Holocaust is remembered in parts of Russia and Europe and why the wording of things matters.
What part don’t you understand? So what if Putin’s a killer? We’ve all killed someone. America will drown in the blood of innocents and then we will see that we are not so very different than Putin.
Timex
5019
My God, this is the funniest I’ve ever seen Melissa McCarthy
kerzain
5020
Hilarious skit. Loved it when she went full Carrot Top with the props.
Now I’ll have something to be disappointed about if Spicer ever gets replaced.
I put this in the ban thread, but I should have put it here. Inspired by the skit tonight and sketched by my daughter:
Tman
5022
she killed it. What an awesome make-up job. I was crying with laughter.
She loves the square root of moose lambs?
There’s another name for that symbol. It’s called a radical.
How old is your kid? That’s actually really impressive.
ShivaX
5026
When she picked up the podium I about lost it. I had a teacher who did that in high school with his little lectern/desk combo and it reminded me of it so much. He would just ram people with it randomly.
CraigM
5027
Oooohh, I get it now. Took me a minute (I at first assumed it had something to do with the SNL skit or something)
